Volume 26, Number 1 · February 8, 1979
How Carter Hangs On
By Garry Wills
Scott Fitzgerald once mocked a man who 'tried to get up a ship's party on a ferry boat.' That was the story of the Democrats' 1978 midterm conference in Memphis last December. Some signed on for a pleasure cruise and found themselves working a White House shift in the presidential boiler room—a shakedown cruise for 1980. The president, who was accused last summer of managerial incompetence, overmanaged a non-event—which made it an event of sorts. Dissidents in Memphis did not go away doubting Carter's manipulative skills.
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